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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

20071129russanddaughters.jpgWe've got another New York Nostalgia package from Russ & Daughters to give away today.

I've known Russ & Daughters' Mark Federman and his family ever since I came to New York 32 years ago. When I knew very few people here I used to just come to Russ & Daughters to kibitz and just feel like I belonged somewhere. It's a place I still visit for shelter from any storm. And for the company and the Russ family's incredible food. They know smoked fish like very few other people in this world.

What's in this package of New York Nostalgia? One pound of Gaspé Atlantic smoked salmon. A half-pound of sliced smoked sable, one pint house-cured herring fillets in cream sauce with pickled onions, one pound of natural cream cheese with chive, eight authentic New York bagels, one pound of old-fashioned rugelach, and a piece of old-fashioned marble halvah. All delivered to your door (as long as your door is in the continental U.S.) via next-day air.

To win, just answer this in the comments below: What's your favorite New York brunch food?

You have until noon ET tomorrow (Friday, December 21) to answer. Winner will be chosen at random from among the commenters. The standard Serious Eats contest rules apply.

PS: If you just can't wait for this contest to be over and want to order now from Russ & Daughters, we have a special Serious Eats promo code you can use for a 10 percent discount. Just type in SEREATS1914RD in the "Any special instructions or comments" box when you checkout online with Russ & Daughters.

Comments are closed: 502 Comments:

My favorite NY brunch food is bagel and lox.

Anything at Rosewater in Park Slope

bagels with lox

A plain bagel, a sesame bagel, and a poppy bagel. Cream cheese. Smoked sturgeon, salmon, and sable. Coffee. A nap..

blini, sour cream, caviar and champagne.

"everything" bagel, cream cheese, lox, and the Sunday Times

slice of pepperoni pizza

bagel, cream cheese, lox

Bagels, Cream Cheese, Lox etc...

I always say lox and bagel, but I've never been to New York so I'm sure I am missing out on something....

something exactly like this please oh please

pumpernickel bagel with lox spread

everything bagel toasted with whitefish salad.

A slice of pepperoni pizza

Creamed herring.

Bagel with lox and cream cheese. Enjoyed with the Sunday New York Times and a cup of coffee.

bagels and cream cheese

Any kind of good omelet, with home fries!

i was going to say bagels & lox, but...yeah...a slice of pizza beats that. not that i don't want the russ & daughters package, though...

I have so many that I keep answering differently. On most Sundays I am quite happy with an everything bagel with lox and cream cheese, and a large black coffee.

bagels and lox

toasted bagel, cream cheese, red onions, and smoked salmon

'ino's truffled egg toast which i'm going to attempt to recreate for christmas brunch

toss up between eggs benedict and a great everything bagel with lox and cream cheese YUM!

smoked salmon and potato pancakes with creme fraiche, a few half sours, and a bottomless glass of seltzer

sesame bagel toasted with lox and cream cheese (and onions, and capers, etc.). mmm...

Onion bagel, toasted, whipped cream cheese, onion, tomato slice.

Bagel, cream cheese, and smoked salmon.

Whatever I have left over, and a little of the hair of the dog.

Fresh bagel, ultra-rich cream cheese, and a very smoky salmon.

When I go I'm dying to try some slices...

smoked salmon and capers

bagel, cream cheese, and lox

Bagels, whitefish and nova, ideally at Greengrass.

duh, bagel and lox. Though I will rarely kick a poached egg out of bed.

sesame bagel, cream cheese and lox

bagels, lox, cream cheese

onion bagel + cream cheese + nothing

eggs benedict

eggs benedict

Pretty much anything with smoked salmon.

Eggs and onions, with a toasted bagel and coffee.

My favorite brunch food is easily bagel and lox.

Gotta go with the best combo bagel, cream cheese, smoked salmon

bagels with onion cream chhese

Soooo tasty! My favorite is still getting a bagel with lox, a mimosa, and a cappucino, even though when i go to fancy brunch place i always feel guilty -- like i should be getting somethign the restaurant made rather than a bagel & lox they had brought in from outside...

everything bagel with veggie cream cheese.

omelets any type..

bagel, lox, n' cream cheese.

whitefish on bagel

Bagel, a smear of cream cheese & either lox or capers (topped with a slice of tomatoe & a slice of sweet onion)...OY VEY!

cappucino, lox, sable, whitefish, sturgeon...fin

bagels and cream cheese

A bacon omelet with rye toast!

Poppyseed bagel, toasted, open faced with whitefish spread. Pickle assortment on the side (more crunchy than squishy.)

Anything from a deli. I miss living near a good Jewish deli.

New york Bagels!!!

bloody mary and toast.

I have to go with the flow here...a bagel and lox, strong black coffee and a side of the Sunday NY Times. Darn, and I so wanted to be "different". Hee!

Eggs Benedict and Mimosas!! yumyum ;-)

The gift package contains my favorite brunch food: sliced smoked sable and herring fillets in cream sauce with pickled onion.

Everything bagel, lox, dilled cream cheese, red onion, capers, and thinly sliced cucumber...OMG..

Blintzes, of course (too bad Ratner's is gone; theirs were the best)

Bacon, Sausage, 2 eggs over easy, toast with butter, coffee, and orange juice

:) mmm

Hopelessly conventional: bagels, lox, onions, capers

1/2 pound of smoked salmon, 4 oz chive cream cheese and 2 onion bagels plus a scattering of capers and sliced red onion--

waffles with maple syrup

I love eggs benedict or crepes.

smoked salmon!

Bagel and schmear.

Go to a deli and have a corned beef sammie with swiss cheese, mustard on a kaiser - now you're talkin'!!!

Very simply...Manhatten Pizza....

Without a doubt my favorite NY Brunch food is a NY bagel. While I can get bagels in most parts of the country, almost all do not have the nice consistency of the NY Bagel.

An "everything" bagel with cream cheese makes each trip to New York worth it.

I'm a yankee at heart. This gify would make me break out in a sweat.

Anything Rueben.

bagel w/ lox, cream cheese and red onion and coffee

A nice fresh bialy, full-fat cream cheese, sable, sliced tomato and cucumber, and hot, strong coffee. It doesn't get any better than that!

I love Sarabeth's :)

Bloody mary.

Oh. And I guess I'll either have some version of eggs benedict (if the hollandaise is truly excellent) or a sesame bagel, toasted, with lots of full-fat cream cheese, capers, shaved red onions and lox (in that order, please).

I don't know, but I'd love to try this!

eggs benedict*

*since hash browns are few and far between in the 'new york brunch food' world

bagel, creamcheese, lox and cheesecake.

it's actually Russ & Daughters! I come home to NJ every year to spend Christmas with my family - it's my father's job to, while he's in the city for work, swing by the shop to pick up some goodies for Christmas Eve (herring!) and Day (lox galore). This is the first Christmas for me as a wife, and since my husband will be joining us, the more the merrier they say!

I love smoked salmon covered with sliced red onions, capers and a chopped hard boiled egg! - and of course a toasted bagel on the side smothered with cream cheese - yum

Clotted cream and a bagel

my answer is always the same: bagels or bialys, all manner of smoked fish (whitefish, lox, sable, sturgeon, herring, etc etc), a schmear, sliced cukes, tomatoes, and red onion, coffee, and a black and white cookie.

Lox, cream cheese, sliced tomatoes, red onions, and capers!

nova on a bagel with cr cheese and red onion.

1. Anything from Barney Greengrass.
2. Anything from the Manhattan Diner.
3. A croissant and coffee from a cart near Bryant Park.
Now when I'm NOT in NYC..lox, eggs and onions with a toasted bagel and Breakstone's whipped butter. Unsalted.

everything bagel with cream cheese, lox, onion, tomato, capers and a laptop with a week's worth of serious eats posts subscribed in net news wire. yummm

Has to be bagel and lox.

Smoked sturgeon and an onion bialy

A well-done bagel, very brown on the bottom, with soft cream cheese.

bagel an strawberry cream cheese.

Another vote for bagels!

french toast or pumpkin pancakes with a LOT of coffee

bagel and lox

Chopped chicken liver pate. Hands down. Impossible to find here.

bagels and lox

lox and bagels with a slice of onion

bacon, egg, toast, tomato juice,

cheese blintzes and latkes -- all year 'round

Blueberry Bagel with Cream Cheese.

Bagel, Cream Cheese & Sturgeon

everything bagel with cream cheese

bagels, cream cheese, whitefish salad and pickled herring in cream sauce-with lots of onions

Bagel with cream cheese!

Sesame bagel, cream cheese, nova lox. Yum!

bagels, pizza

Salt bagel, nova, cream cheese, thin slice of red onion.

eggs benedict with smoked salmon instead of sausage

bagels and cream cheese

I'm going with a knish.

Mimosas and french toast with bacon and fresh fruit.

bagel with cream cheese, lox and a few capers

Love bagels with cream cheese!

NY Brunch ..... could it be anything other than bagel and lox

rugelach with black black coffee

Onion bagel with butter

For NY Brunch I'd love some MATZO BALL SOUP please!!

Bagels with lox and cream cheese.

bagels and nova with a juicy tomatoe and red onion!!!!!
oh baby thats heavenly!!!

smoked salmon on a bagel with tomato and onion

Corned beef on rye... yes for brunch

a bagel and cream cheese

ham and cheese quiche

Has to be the bagel!

Any quality lox

Since I live in Alabama, I don't know what a New York brunch is. A Mimosa and a slice of toast? Bagels? Lox and cream cheese? My favorite brunch of any state has to involve bacon. And LOTS of it. Can't get enough bacon.

Oatmeal, raisins and maple syrup.

Sesame bagel with cream cheese

Sesame bagel and OJ

Sarabeth's- Lemon Ricotta Pancakes

Nothing better than New York Cheesecake. I am having it for Christmas. Yummy.

bialy with cream cheese.

A pizza from someplace Adam recommends and a cosmopolitan.

Rye or Pumpernickle bagel with cream cheese. Thanks for the giveaway.

Everything bagel, well toasted, Ben's cream cheese, and smoked salmon

This has been a good opportunity to come up with alternative answers, so this time I'm gonna say: chorizo/scrambled egg tacos with a bottle of Tecate (if it's after 12:00 noon).

Bagels, lox, cream cheese & coffee.

Unfortunately, I have never been to NY, but I would imagine a delicious fresh bagel with a tasty spread would do it for me. I've heard NY pizza is to die for. All I know is my husband would love me forever if I won this basket!

Everything bagle, vegetable cream cheese

bagels and lox

dog and crout

bacon with maple syrup

bagels an herbed cheese.

bagels, cream cheese, lox, the works...and then something sweet.

Eggs benedict or bagel w/ cream cheese and lox.

love a whitefish platter with a bialy.

I lived in NYC for 8 years and remember Russ's well (a few blocks away.) My favorite is STILL bagels, cream cheese, chopped liver, whitefish salad, smoked salmon (with capers, red onions, fresh dill)... - While I can find all of these items here in Chicago - the quality just doesn't compare. Hmmm - I'm dreaming of a Russ's Sunday brunch...

Schmear of chopped liver, and a bialy.

A toasted bagel, with cream cheese and strawberry jam on the side, and just a little smoked salmon !Ohh brunch, YUM !!

so many things:
everything bagel or onion byali with veggie cream cheese
big floppy slice of pizza
steamed dumplings from the excellent dumpling house in chinatown
fried dough thing stuffed with potato from brighton beach in brooklyn
cherry cheese knishes, yumm.
Anything along restaurant row on 9th avenue

Columbian adaptation of eggs benedict at cafe cito in greenpoint.

H and H everything bagel with some whitefish spread.

I never had the pleasure of eating brunch in New York, but this package of delights sounds great!

Mushroom and cheese omlette with half a bagel. Yum!

Bagels with butter or cream cheese.

Not too greasy pepperoni pizza

I know it sounds gross to some people but it's gotta be the herring!

Bagel and lox

A fresh bialy from Kossar's.

Mmmm bagels with cream cheese and pickled herring with pickled onion and a mimosa. To. Die. For. I need to get back to NYC soon... you just can't get that kind of thing in PDX.

Seasons Greetings! I would have to say a hot bagel with either a vegetarian cream cheese or a fruit cream cheese. Thanks,Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com

sesame bagel with cream cheese, nova, tomato and a red onion

Pain au chocolat

A Rye Bagel With Cream Cheese

Whitefish salad on bagel, vanilla egg cream for dessert!

a wheat bagel with strawberry cream cheese.

Bagels of course

bagels and lox

smoked sable

blueberry bagel with peanut butter and cinnamin

dim sum; french toast or pancakes

Bagels with strawberry cream cheese

bagel lox cream chees

Anything from the bagel family

Papaya cut in half and the seeds removed and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.

mimosas and blintzes

Latkes with apple sauce.

bagels and cream cheese~ yum!

Varenyky at the Veselka in East Village

lox and bagels

When I lived in New York there was a little Polish restaurant on 3rd in the East Village. They had all the regular breakfast food but I lived on stuffed cabbage rolls...Glunke with mushroom gravy (my spelling I'm sure is way off). That was my favorite brunch food and almost just as cheap as a bagel and cream cheese! I was also very pregnant when this ritual started!

Everything bagel + whitefish salad.

An everything bagel w/ about a quarter pound of chive cream cheese, topped with lox and a thin slice of red onion.

Matzoh ball soup, smoked chicken salad sandwich, cafe latte...Mmmm...Delicious!

Eggs Benedict!

Challah French Toast

sesame bagel with nova, red onion, capers and a shmear

I remember having spamoni at a restaurant called Mama Leoni's

Love NY bagels but can't leave NY without a cannoli from Ferraras

Wedding soup, BLT, or pizza with everything!!!

Bagels and cream cheese!

Bagels and butter!

Lox, eggs,and onions!

eggs florentine

eggs florentine